Manifesting, Success, Confidence
Metaphysical Properties
- Stimulates desires
- Releases insecurities
- Manages your anger
- Promotes good health
- Brings you joy and hope
- Inspires love within you
- Helps with manifestations
- Helps reduce financial loss
- Helps to warn you of danger
- Helps to stimulate your desires
- Helps you let go of old patterns
- Drives you to take action on goals
- Helps dissolve any energy blockages
- Purifies and balances your emotions
- Helps you create the reality you want
- Brings success into your business matters
- Lessens the anger you direct toward yourself
- Helps boost your self-esteem and self confidence
- Symbolizes fidelity, loyalty, sincerity, grace, and faith
- Produces strong life force energy to awaken your inner fire
- Brings your dreams into reality and puts purpose in your life
- Ensures that energy is flowing smoothing through your body
- Cleanses the chakras of negative energy and re energizes them
Affirmations
- I am creating my heart’s desires
- I am grounded and I am safe
- My mind, body, and spirit are aligned and working for my greatest possible future
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mars
- Element: Fire, Earth
- Zodiacs: Aries, Leo,Virgo, Capricorn, Aquarius
- Number: 11
Physical Properties
- Color: Red, Blood Red typically, but can be orange, green, yellow, purple, black, or brown. Blue garnets are extremely rare
- Habit: Rhombic dodecahedron or cubic
- Rarity: Common
- Luster: Vitreous
- Species: Composed of 6 sub-minerals: Almandine, Pyrope, Spessartine, Andradite, Grossular, and Uvarovite
- Zoning: Weak
- Gravity: 3.5 to 4.3
- Fracture: Conchoidal to uneven
- Cleavage: None
- Hardness: 6.5 to 7.5
- Twinning: only with some varieties
- Locations: Brazil, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Russia
- Fluorescence: Varies
- Pleochroism: None
- Birefringence: None
- Transparency: Transparent to translucent
- Named After: Garnet derives from Gernet meaning “dark red” and the word “Granatus'' meaning grain or seed, in reference to its resemblance to a Pomegranate. First recorded as ΑνθραϪέ by Theophrastus, Pliny the Elder recorded garnet in 77 A.D. as Carchedonius Garamanticus or Garamantic Carbuncle,
- Melting point: 1950°C
- Discovered In: 325 B.C
- Luminescence: None
- Discovered By: Theophrastus
- Refractive Index: 1.770-1.820
- System/Structure: Isometric
- Chemical Formula: (Mg, Ca, Fe2+, Mn2+)3(Al, Fe3+, Cr3+, V3+)2(SiO4)3
- Inclusions (streak): White, Common
- Chemistry Classification: Silicate
Health Benefits
- Helps cure inflammatory diseases